Ep 137: Chloé Sorvino | Reimagining Food Sustainability in Heaven on Earth

Chloé Sorvino leads coverage of food, drink and agriculture at Forbes. Her debut book, Raw Deal: Hidden Corruption, Corporate Greed, and the Fight for the Future of Meat, is available from Simon & Schuster’s Atria Books.

Her near decade of reporting at Forbes has brought her to In-N-Out Burger’s secret test kitchen, drought-ridden farms in California’s Central Valley, a billionaire-owned slaughterhouse in Omaha, and even a chocolate croissant factory designed like a medieval castle in Northern France.

She works on the 30 Under 30 Food and Drink list and spearheaded Forbes’ Ag Tech Summits, with signature events in Salinas and Indianapolis. She serves as a steward of the Forbes Union.

Her work has been featured by NPR, the Los Angeles Times and Fast Company. For the Financial Times, she shared a 2014 Best in Business award in government reporting by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers for an investigation detailing the U.S. government’s then-running price tag for its conflict in Afghanistan. Titled “The Cost of War,” it led A1 when it ran on Monday, December 15, 2014.

She grew up gardening in New Jersey. She studied journalism and international economics at George Washington University, but spent most of her time learning as a news editor at the independent student newspaper, The Hatchet. She resides in Lower Manhattan with her husband Nick and their composting worms.

In this episode of Visionary Souls, we explored...

  • How Chloe started her journey in arriving to her book project: Raw Deal: Hidden Corruption, Corporate Greed, and the Fight for the Future of Meat

  • How rare and expensive good meat really is and how there is accessibility gap

  • How we’ve been conditioned to believe that voting with your dollars is the only way forward

  • How supporting local communities and local network providers for our sustenance is the future of more sustainability and conscious consumption

  • Climate change is eminent and we must take responsibility to support positive change 

  • How the time to change is really now

And SOUL much more...come play!

Connect with Chloe:

Website: https://www.chloesorvino.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/csorvino/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/chloesorvino 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chloesorvino/ 

Raw Deal: https://amzn.to/3HlIS42 

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